Unit 13: Paper 3 — History of Europe (HL)
Topic 13.5: Unification of Germany and Italy (1815–1871) Questions
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Which set of measures did Klemens von Metternich introduce in 1819 to suppress German nationalist and liberal activity?
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What territorial gain did Prussia receive at the 1815 Congress of Vienna that gave it an economic base no other German state could match?
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In what year was the Zollverein, the Prussian-led customs union, founded?
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Which elected assembly met from May 1848 to design a constitution for a united Germany?
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How did the Prussian king Frederick William IV respond when the Frankfurt Parliament offered him the imperial crown in March 1849?
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Evaluate the claim that the Zollverein was the decisive cause of Prussian-led German unification.
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What did Giuseppe Garibaldi do after conquering Sicily and Naples in 1860?
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What was the Pact of Plombières (1858)?
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In an 1862 speech, what did Bismarck say Germany's great questions would be decided by?
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Which battle in 1866 crushed Austria and ended its role in German affairs?
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How did Italy gain Rome to complete unification in 1870?
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Giuseppe Mazzini founded Young Italy in 1831, demanding a united Italy that was above all what kind of state?
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Which meeting of European powers in 1814-15 restored old monarchies and redrew the map of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon?
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Which Italian territory was placed under direct Austrian rule by the 1815 settlement, giving Vienna control of the richest and most industrious part of the peninsula?
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The 1819 Carlsbad Decrees, which banned nationalist student groups and imposed press censorship across the German Confederation, were passed after which event?
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At which Congress did Austria, Russia and Prussia agree the 'Troppau Protocol', asserting the right of the great powers to intervene militarily against revolutions?
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"By the 1840s, German nationalism had become a powerful, popular force rather than a narrow, middle-class movement." To what extent do you agree with this claim?
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Discuss the view that Metternich's system of repression in the Vormarz period ultimately strengthened, rather than weakened, German nationalism.
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"The failure of the 1848 revolutions in Germany was caused above all by divisions between the middle classes and the working classes." To what extent do you agree with this claim?
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Discuss the view that the Frankfurt Parliament's choice of Kleindeutschland over Grossdeutschland was the main reason it failed to achieve German unification in 1848-49.
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